One of the things that's fascinating about living in New Zealand to me is that for most of the millions of years of its existence, it wa...

Excuse me while I put on my cynic's hat. I like to think of myself as fairly environmentally minded. But I found this whole Earth Hour...

Well, that was a whirlwind Christmas trip -- less than 48 hours out of Auckland -- but we had to negotiate work schedules and so forth and w...

Deep into the redwood canopy: Wild Trees One of my favorite places in the world has always been California's most remote regions, far aw...